[19500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GTEI/Exodus
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Tue Sep 15 20:28:33 1998
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 20:25:10 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
To: jon@zeeff.com, Tim Wolfe <tim@clipper.net>
Cc: list@inet-access.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0zJ4sI-0004N7C@rasta.whs.verio.net>; from Jon Zeeff on Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 07:51:10PM -0400
Cold potato routing is great as long as you have sufficent
bandwidth to do this.
Anyone with that spare bw will be running one of the best ISPs
i'm sure :)
- jared
On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 07:51:10PM -0400, Jon Zeeff wrote:
>
> Or perhaps Exodus is evening out the byte miles between source and destination
> ISPs by hauling traffic closer to the destination before it leaves
> their network.
>
> > > GTE Internetworking has joined with Exodus Communications, Inc. to speed up
> > > their customers' access to the Internet.
> > Hmm.. not to start another massive thread here, but I wonder if this means
> > that Exodus is now paying for transit and/or peering?
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